Microsoft Loves Linux!

https://archive.fo/EoMRw | http://techrights.org/2016/02/10/extorting-acer-with-patents/
Microsoft loves Linux the way a python likes sheep. Microsoft uses software patent threats to bully Android phone makers to include Microsoft's proprietary malware. Microsoft donates to the Linux foundation so that they upscale, making them reliant on Microsoftbux and more amiable to Microsoft's influence, thereby.

Their new Pajeet CEO is able to tell the world has changed and it's time to wake up and smell the poo. All computing is going to be server-client in a couple years. The PC, as a concept, is dead. General purpose personal computing is dead. People have already decided what they want to do with computers, and an iPhone is good enough for it.

In the future of nothing but server farms and specialized consumer hardware, there will be no place for 90s boomer technology like Windows and UNIX.

IMO the best thing for Microsoft right now is to use their trillions to expand Azure and become an infrastructure company.